Empty container with hazmat placarding

If you are empty, you are not allowed to have any placard at all showing.

I would have loved to have taken that in front of a judge.

 

I thought fuel haulers had to placcard their trucks all the time including returning to the terminal with an empty tank with fumes in it.

 

I know on Railroad cars you can have a placard on an empty as long as the placard is for the last product hauled in that car. Listed as Residue Empty. I would think that it would be the same in trucking, but don't hold me to it.

 

This is true, and can only be un-placarded if you have a certified wash-out.

I do not know the law for those hauling haz in dry vans, however.

 

From the looks of the placards on the fuel tankers, those puppies are permanent.

 

Fuel trucks keep them on because they still pose a hazard and even though they are liquid empty they still have flammables in them.

 

Tankers need to be placarded until washed -or- reloaded. If the shipper gives you a RR placard w/ the 'empty' side, it is NOT legal for highway transport; just for RR use.

Fuel tanks are not cleaned but simply top-loaded so they often use the stick on placards and were allowed to use ones that mention the product by name instead of displaying the 4 digit NA/UN id number so they could have one saying 'Gasoline' on a flammable placard, or a flammable 1290 placard. The same placards is still allowed when transporting diesel or heating oil as they are allowed to 'over placard' a combustible product with a flammable placard...

We used to haul 8-pot trailers loaded w/ a mixture of combustible and flammable solvents and had to placard the sides to match the compartments but we were legal with just one flammable on the front and back. I fought that fight w/ a rookie DOT bear from PA and after I got to his boss, he called to apologize!

 

All the gas/diesel trucks around here have a 1203 placard.

 

Cali may not like the ones that say gasoline or fuel oil...1203 is gasoline and they can load diesel and be over placarded...

 

I haul mini-bulk containers on a curtained flat bed trailer and there is always a flammable residue in the containers when empty and the tanks themselves exceed 1,000 lbs, so we display placards when hauling the empty tanks....the tanks are transported with the hatches closed.

When we off load all the tanks, then we remove the placards.